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-Harness-2-Booster seat offers BRITAX premium Safety You Can See technologies and a spacious, comfortable fit for growing children- FORT MILL, S.C., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As children grow up, they need seats that grow with them. That's why BRITAX is introducing the PIONEER 70 combination Harness-2-Booster seat. The smart-value, premium seat offers unrivaled safety, comfort and convenience for children graduating from a convertible car seat. (Photo:...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) today announced that its portfolio company Dynamic Precision Group has acquired Paradigm Precision Holdings, a Peabody, Massachusetts based provider of highly engineered components for turbine engines serving the commercial aerospace, defense and energy end markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Paradigm Precision is a global manufacturer of a diverse range of...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC ("CD&R"), a global private equity firm with a strategy of building and growing the businesses in which it invests, and iLevel Solutions, the cloud-based software provider to alternative asset managers, together announced that CD&R has selected and gone live on iLevel for its portfolio monitoring platform. iLevel is an innovative, SaaS-based portfolio monitoring platform that automates data collection...

The Britax Roundabout 55 has gotten high marks from the experts at EliteCarSeats.com, the online car seat store recently announced. Troy, MI (PRWEB) January 30, 2013 The Britax Roundabout 55 has gotten high marks from the experts at EliteCarSeats.com, the leading online provider of high quality car seats and booster seats recently announced. Bob Smith, EliteCarSeats.com spokesman said, “The Britax Roundabout 55 is one of the most convertible car seats that Britax has made to date and...

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, today released its full year 2012 mergers and acquisitions trend report for Private Equity in the Information Industry. The report analyzes M&A activity in the private equity market during 2012 and compares it with data covering 2010 and 2011. It features transactions made by financially sponsored acquirers within the Information Industry, including purchases made by subsidiaries...

HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) today announced it has completed the sale of its Milton Roy Co., Sullair Corp. and Sundyne Corp. industrial products businesses to BC Partners and The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) for $3.46 billion. Sale of the three former Hamilton Sundstrand industrial products businesses is another step forward in UTC's ongoing portfolio transformation to focus on its core of aerospace and building systems. As...

GREENWICH, Conn., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brynwood Partners VI L.P. announced today that it has sold its portfolio company, Balance Bar Company, to NBTY, Inc., a global leader in vitamins, supplements and active nutrition products and a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. Balance Bar, founded in 1992, and acquired by Brynwood VI from Kraft Foods, Inc. in 2009, has been an innovator in the nutrition/energy bar category. The Company, which is headquartered in Valhalla, NY, is...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBTY Inc., a global leader in vitamins, supplements and sports nutrition announced today that it has acquired Balance Bar Company, one of the pioneers in the nutritional bar category. "Nutritional bars are a $1 billion industry in the U.S. that we expect to continue to flourish as more and more people need healthy nutrition options on the go," said Jeff Nagel, NBTY's Chief Executive Officer. "We are very excited to be expanding our...

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iLevel Solutions, the software company dedicated to improving portfolio management for alternative asset managers, announced today that it will preview iLevel v6.0 at the 2012 ILPA General Partner Summit. The Institutional Limited Partners Association ("ILPA") holds the annual event to convene General Partners and Limited Partners and iLevel will be a Gold Sponsor at this year's event at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. iLevel is an...

WASHINGTON and SEATTLE, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Getty Images, a global creator and distributor of still imagery, video and multimedia products today announced the completion of its acquisition by The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), in a transaction valued at approximately $3.3 billion. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121018/SF95656LOGO) With the completion of the transaction, The Carlyle Group has acquired a controlling stake in Getty Images. Getty Images Co-Founder...